Nostr Web Client

My perspective is that Coldcard and other projects (Umbrel) attempt to coopt the term opensource for "street cred" while simultaneously barring ventures from using their source code.

The "open" in open source is about freedom of use, not code viewability.

Source viewable projects that bar ventures from using it are not open source; it's the opposite.

This has become enough of a theme within #Bitcoin and other industries that the Open Source Initiative had to publish a definition that specifically calls these projects out as "license traps".

> "The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it."

https://opensource.org/osd/

mattaroo 2y ago

I hear you. This is something that continuously gets brought up in my circle and am trying to figure out the right answer. Thanks for your insights. Maybe NVK will comment soon.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Laser 2y ago

open source >

closed source (source viewable) >

closed source (source not viewable)

The big problem is that the entire #Bitcoin space still believes CC is open source because "the damage has been done" in terms of cooption.

Now, folks who care about open source (like the Open Source Initiative) have to do damage control because the definition matters.